Category: Preserves & creams

• Pickled baby peppers

  

  Pickled baby bell peppers (peppardews) and cream cheese stuffed peppers.. Make the most of a glut of veggies from your garden or greenhouse

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 29, 2020

  Autumn, Food, Frugal food, Preserves & creams, Sides, Vegetarian

  baby peppers, cheese stuffed, peppers, pickles

• Flavoured salts – part two

  

  Four incredible salt mixes: Italian with dried tomato puree, French, Umami with dried @marmite (yes really!) and a pretty and unusual English Summer Sweet – all vegetarian. Part 2 of my salt mixes posts

  Ink Sugar Spice

  February 16, 2019

  All seasons, Food, French, Herbs, Ingredient information, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Summer, Vegetarian

  drying, French, Herbs, Italian, marmite, preserving, puree, recipe, rock salt, salt, salt mix, sea salt, smoked salt, tomato, Vegetarian

• Flavoured salts – part one

  

  [updated] It’s all the food fashion at the moment it seems to have a pot of two of flavoured sea salt, with salt companies clambering over each other to bring them out. Take a look past the hype and you’ll see that salt mixes are exceptionally useful in the kitchen and can even be used […]

  Ink Sugar Spice

  January 29, 2019

  All seasons, Food, Herbs, Ingredient information, Kitchen tips & food advice, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Summer

  accompaniments, Asian-style, black salt, chilli, fine salt, fleur-de-del, Herbs, Himalayan rock salt, rock salt, salt, salt mix, salt recipe, sel gris, spices

• “Mothers ruin” chutney

  

  Mothers ruin chutney – a gorgeous recipe for a gin soaked, green tomato pickle that’s perfect to use up those unripened fruits this autumn

  Ink Sugar Spice

  October 25, 2018

  Autumn, British, Christmas, Food, Fruit, Picnic, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Vegetarian, Winter

  chutney, featured, Gin, green tomatoes, pickle, preserces, sterilising

• Lean pasta sauce – Salsa magro

  

  Salsa magro, or lean sauce. A delicious, unusual tomato based sauce – adapted for modern kitchens from a late 1800s recipe

  Ink Sugar Spice

  August 10, 2018

  All seasons, Food, Food history, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice, Lunch, Main meals, Pasta, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Summer, Vegetarian

  anchovies, mushroooms, pasta sauce, salsa, sauce, tomato, tomatoes

• Homemade ricotta – and ways to enrich, flavour or infuse it

  

  Simple homemade ricotta recipe, plus tips on how to infuse or add flavours to it or enrich it

  Ink Sugar Spice

  May 14, 2017

  All seasons, Food, Food skills, Ingredient information, Italian, Pasta, Preserves & creams, Sides, Starters

  cheese, handmade, homemade, milk, ricotta, soft cheese

• Unctuous plum chutney

  

  Unctuous plum chutney with a little background kick – perfect for cold meats and strong cheeses

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 26, 2017

  Autumn, British, Christmas, Food, Food skills, Fruit, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Vegetarian

  chutney, pickle, plum, preserves, preserving

• A twist on Mont Blanc

  

  A twist on individual Mont Blanc desserts using a spiced biscuit cream and served with berries #InghamsFoodieFinds

  Ink Sugar Spice

  March 7, 2017

  All seasons, Baking, Dessert, Food, French, Patisserie, Preserves & creams

  biscuit spread, ganache, Mont Blanc, strawberry, Swiss

• Cranberry, pineapple, cherry and nut mincemeat

  

  A rich, citrus mincemeat with pineapple, cranberries, cherry juice and nuts – a world of difference from shop bought mincemeat

  Ink Sugar Spice

  October 26, 2016

  British, Christmas, Festive, Food, Fruit, Preserves & creams, Winter

  cherry, Christmas, Festive, mincemeat, nuts, orange, pineapple, preserves